PUESTA DEL SOL - New 8"x16" Original Oil, framed

Studio No. 2117 - PUESTA DEL SOL (Setting Sun - Taos, New Mexico) - New 8"x16" Original Oil on Canvas, framed - Preview Painting.

ARCO DE IRIS (Taos, New Mexico - New 8"x16" Original Oil

Studio No. 2217 - ARCO DE IRIS - (Rainbow - Taos, New Mexico) - 8"x16" Original Oil on Canvas, framed - Preview Painting.

CREATE PEACE...

“The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again. Children, everybody, here’s what to do during war: In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”—From THE FIFTH BOOK OF PEACE, Maxine Hong Kingston (Original Oil Painting "First Light" by Donna Clair).

LAST LIGHT AT TRUCHAS - Fine art prints, framed or unframed, greeting cards, posters and many other great items for home and office now available at FINE ART AMERICA.

DIAS DE ORO (Days of Gold - Truchas, New Mexico - Prints, greeting cards.....

DIAS DE ORO (Days of Gold, Truchas, New Mexico) - 123 images now available from Donna Clair paintings - Fine Art Prints, Greeting cards, posters and many, many other great items for home and office - FINE ART AMERICA.

LOS CAMPOS DEL LLANO - NEW! 8"x16" Original Oil, framed

Studio No. 2017 - LOS CAMPOS DEL LLANO - New 8"x16" Original Oil, framed in gold with linen liner - Preview Painting.

RODARTE AFTERNOON - New 8"x16" Original Oil

Studio No. 1817 - RODARTE AFTERNOON (Rodarte, New Mexico) New 8"x16" Original Oil on Canvas, framed - Preview Painting.

MOUNTAIN TIME - NEW 16"X18" Original Oil Painting

Studio No. 1917 - MOUNTAIN TIME (on a backroad somewhere near Truchas, New Mexico) - New 16"18" Original Oil on Canvas, now available for purchase - Preview Painting.

CHIMAYO TRADING DEL NORTE - Now showing in Santa Fe.......

Saturday and Sunday - Chimayo Trading del Norte Booth No. 44 - El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia - 11Am to 5PM -- You are invited!!! Stop in to say Hello to Gabe and Alicia Abrums! 

INTRODUCING GABE ABRUMS.....

Introducing Gabe Abrums, Owner of Chimayo Trading Del Norte.  About a month ago I received an e.mail that Gabe would like to work with me to sell my paintings,  We have met and made a good connection.  Both he and his wife were raised in Chimayo, New Mexico - and, for the first time, I have someone who truly knows the places in northern New Mexico where I have lived and painted for fifty years.  This is new - and over the next few months, we will learn to work together.  In the meantime all my original paintings will be available through Collector's Gallery on my website.  Some can still be purchased through my studio and others will go through the  gallery. Gabe will also be showing some of my paintings in Santa Fe this weekend.

OBJECTS OF ART/SANTA FE - A special show  - El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia.  Friday/Sunday - 11Am to 5PM.

In Taos the gallery is located in the historic Ranchos de Taos Plaza, right near the beautiful and iconic St. Francis Church. I love this old church  have prayed there many times. Somehow this all feels right.  I am very happy to have made this connection and hope that you will visit the gallery or my website to keep up with my new work.  A huge sigh of relief that now I will have more time to paint - always a good thing! 
 
Gabe Abrums
Chimayo Trading
Ranchos de Taos Plaza
(575) 758-0504
chimayotrading@msn.com

AUTUMN PRAYERS - 28"X22 Work in Progress (Glazes)

Studio No. 1817 - AUTUMN PRAYERS (Placitas, New Mexico) - New Work in Progress (Glazes & Middle Tones) - Using my painting medium to apply the paint with soft brushes -- Sky: Cyan, Yellow Ochre, Permalba White.  Trees:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque - outline Prussian Blue and burnt sienna.  Fields:  Yellow Ochre and Burnt Sienna.  Adobe:  Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow and White - shady areas: Yellow Ochre Deep.  Foreground Grasses:  Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna.  Cadmium Yellow/Yellow Ochre.

AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Las Trampas, New Mexico) - New 8"x10" Original Oil - Sold

Studio No. 1117 - AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Las Trampas, New Mexico) - New 8"x10" Original Oil on Italian Gessoed Panel, framed  - Sold (Pasadena, Calif.)

MOONRISE OVER MIDDLE ROAD (Taos, New Mexico) New 8"x10" Original Oil

Studio No. 1117 - MOONRISE OVER MIDDLE ROAD (Taos, New Mexico) - New 8"x10" Original Oil on Italian Gessoed Panel, framed - available.  Preview Painting.

AUTUMN PRAYERS - 28"x22" Work in Progress (Underpainting)

Studio No. 1817 - AUTUMN PRAYERS (Placitas, New Mexico) - 28"x22" Work in Progress (Underpainting) - Use bristle brush.  Mix Grumbacher MG Underpainting White with Distilled Turpentine and color.  Sketch in color with loose brushstrokes.  Color Notes:  Sky: Paynes Gray/Prussian Blue. Hills: Chrome Oxide Green Opaqe/Yellow Ochre.  Fields - Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna.  Chamisa: Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre.  Rooftop:  Cerulean Blue, Payne's Gray.  Adobe:  Burnt Sienna, Mars Orange, Yellow Ochre.  Let dry for a few days.

RIO HONDO - New 30"x24 Original Oil

Studio No. 1617 - RIO HONDO (Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico) - 30"x24" Original Oil on Belgian Linen, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  Now available - Preview Painting.

MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE - 8"x16" Original Oil, Framed

MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE (Truchas, New Mexico) - 8"x16" Original Oil, framed (available - Preview Painting) -

Don Eusavio was my next door neighbor when I lived in Truchas and by observing him each day, he taught me how to live. He had lived in the same house for most of his life and there was a field between us where Henry Romero pastured his cows.  I watched the old man from a distance - and if there was a secret to life he had found it - quite simply it was habit and routine.  Each morning I would hear him tap-tapping on something in his shed, then he would carry in some wood from the big pile in his yard.  The smoke from his chimney would rise and he would fix his lunch-  Then he might put on his green baseeball cap, grab his orange bucket and pick apricots.  His friend Rosita might come calling and they would go for a drive.  He lived an uncomplicated life - on purpose.  He was a happy man!

CAPILLA DE PLACITAS - 10"x10" Original Oil, framed

CAPILLA DE PLACITAS -10"x10" Original Oil on Canvas, framed (available - Preview painting)  Still remember the first time I saw this little church years and years ago on one of my many trips back home to Truchas.  Had my camera with me - parked near the gas statiion across the road and climbed part way up the water tower to get a better view.  Have painted this place many times front and back - it is a talisman, a sacred place - many candles, many prayers.........

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO 1967 - THE ADVENTURE BEGINS....

THE ROAD HOME - 8"x16" Original Oil, framed - available - Preview Painting.  

 SEPTEMBER 1967 - We rented a small adobe house on Alegre St. from an old cowboy named Les Langley - across our backyard fence was Rosario Cemetary.  The babies were still in diapers and crawling and the only heat was with floor furnaces - a big challenge.  Still a Chicago girl, I was homesick, very lonely and did not know where to begin.  Trying to be helpful, a neighbor gave me a New Mexico Magazine -  started to read while the children were napping.  There was a photo of a Taos Pueblo drummer -  got out my paints and copied the photo.  We needed money and the painting sold for $75 which was a fortune to me.  The wheels started spinning - maybe,  just maybe this place - Santa Fe, New Mexico - was where I belonged all along..... I was just born in Chicago by accident! 

TUCUMCARI, NEW MEXICO -AND THE YEAR IS 1967.....

A HAPPY LITTLE CLOUD (Taos, New Mexico) - 36"x40 Original Oil on Belgian Linen- available - Preview Painting.........Sometime in the middle of September in 1967 husband Jack and I had watched the moving van leave our house on Riegel Rd. in Homewood, Ill. My son John was two and my twins, Mary and Sarah, were six months old.  It was a long trip - the girls learned to eat spaghetti with their fingers in some little restaurant along the way.  We crossed the border into New Mexico late in the afternoon - The sky above us was cloudless, but to our left was this huge, ominous blue and black monster bursting with thunder and lightning - I would later learn that the dark pouring from that cloud was called "Walking Rain" - The highway straight ahead to Santa Fe was sunny and clear! This was the beginning of my fifty year love affair with the people and landscape of New Mexico - what a adventure! 

MY EASEL AWAITS!

Studio No. 0117 - PASSING STORM (Chimayo, New Mexico) - 8"x10" Original Oil on Italian Gessoed Panel, framed - now available - http://donnaclairart.com/el-llano/

It is so easy to procrastinate! My second husband, Ernie, would jokingly threaten to chain me to the easel!  Took a little rest after our open studio exhibit "Three Artists of Taos" - I know that it is those quiet times - the days in between - when everything is silent that the next paintings come to me in pictures that float by - even when I am doing the dishes.  The word "procrastination" is deceiving - when I am not painting is the time when I do all the heavy lifting - the ideas come if I am really quiet.
Am still settling into this little studio in Taos - setting a work schedule every day from 10AM to 3PM - routine and discipline are my words for today.  This is truly a New Beginning....